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So this is not my #bestnine2017 (I’m waiting until the 31st 😘) BUT I want to introduce you all to something I’m extremely excited about for 2018 ❤️ Let me introduce you to #beeinspired2018 Eight women who have formed a group to inspire each other creatively over the next year. Very much #inspiredbybeesewcial we will…

JANUARY BEE INSPIRED 2018: Prompt: HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN “There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. “ – Leonard Cohen This month I want you to play with this theme exploring the ways we see light and how it radiates through cracks, behind doors, around clouds, back lighting effects. Keeping…

I just received the most incredible post on Instagram: @dmasse just notified me that he used my quilt September Dawn, as inspiration for his Grade 3 Art class. They did their own take on September Dawn making chalk drawings. I so love his post and I am blown away to have been used in his…

Here is my version of the Eastern Shore block. It was a fun one to do and I wanted to capture our sunsets on our “Eastern Shore” with my Anna Maria Horner fabrics. I actually really like this block and I do not very often gravitate to what I sew (I am my own worst…

Here is my 9″ block (9.5″ unfinished) version of @meadowmistdesigns block this week. I named mine Rose Garden and picked my Anna Maria Horner fabrics to try to create a path through a garden. The tutorial for this is found on Cheryl’s blog but I will give you measurements for my down sized block here.…

I am very excited to be a part of the Quilter’s Planner again this year. This year @gnomeangel and @thequiltersplanner are running a weekly challenge to make the weekly block found in your planner called #52weekswiththequiltersplanner. I decided to join in and I am making a sampler using all Anna Maria Horner along with some…

Welcome to the first day of this new block blog hop! Be sure to check out all the other block tutorials (there will be more than 70 released over the next few days). I always love this challenge and was happy to be asked by @quiltingjetgirl @latenightquilter and @meadowmistdesigns to participate again this year. It…

THE HIGH ROAD I am excited to once again be a part of over 30 bloggers participating in creating 12.5″ block designs from a bundle of fabric mailed out to us. The new line of solids is called Ocean Sunrise and included six different fabrics: White, Coral, Peach, Daydream, Midnight and Bordeaux. The challenge was to design …

The Workshop I am so excited to announce that LUKE is coming to #YYC the first weekend in May 2016. He has agreed, with a lot of arm twisting, to teach how he does his amazing figures! For the FIRST TIME EVER. He says this will be the one and only time he will do…

Block Design – The Modern Popsicle We were given 6 fat eighths to create an original quilt design block that finishes at 12-inches square (12.5 inches unfinished). A fat eighth is typically 9″x20″. We were to use at least 3 of the colours from the Watermelon Summer palette and only the fabric provided by Fabri-Quilt.…